This week we review and discuss The Long Walk, a dystopian survival movie directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson and Mark Hamill, about a group of young men who volunteer for a march to the death whose winner will be rewarded with immense wealth in an alternate United States impoverished by a civil war.

We talk about how the movie made us care about its characters and feel for their suffering, how the movie is a bleak allegory for life itself and how that is reflected in its characters, the rules of the Long Walk itself and the worldbuilding that underpins the story, where the worldbuilding falls short and why it compares unfavourably to the Hunger Games in that area, the movie's depiction of the ugliness of violence, and much more.